It was close to 100 degrees as we neared the bottom of the Tongue River Canyon. Tongue River Road led us toward Scott Park and the finish line in Dayton, Wyoming. It was a long, flat stretch of dirt road surrounded by fi...
Articles by John Trent
Devon Yanko was racing for victory at the Leadville 100 on Aug. 19, 2017. Each mile that day was about stepping outside her competitive cocoon. She would later write in her blog, “I savored the moment. I ran this race in...
Diana Fitzpatrick has run many races, including qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials three times, finishing among the top 10 women twice at the Western States Endurance Run, and outright winning the le...
Beginning with my DNF at mile 85 of the Wasatch Front 100-miler in September 2017, the Wasatch Front has inhabited my mind in the most obsessive of ways. I was haunted by my experience because I loved so much about it...
Coree Woltering is the first one to admit that his journey in becoming a professional ultrarunner has been unlikely. “I guess as a kid you do on occasion think about being a professional athlete,” says the 28-year-old...
The small wood table of broken dreams sits not far from the 78-mile checkpoint on the course of the Western States Endurance Run. There is a step-over for horses at a pole gate nearby, and as you pass by the quiet of...
Every ultra community has its leader, and ours was Roland Martin. If you look up Roland’s name on Ultrasignup, you will see results that reach back to the early 1980s. You will see a Western States Endurance Run finis...
I was bruised, battered and beyond help as my pacer and I stumbled into the Pot Hollow aid station at mile 84.7 of September’s Wasatch 100-miler in Utah. For several hours, I’d been tilting far to my left, like a buil...
None of us would ever admit this out loud, but we like our inspirational heroes to be soft and mild. If they’ve faced a high level of adversity – which over the past three years, Dave Mackey certainly has – we expect the...
Precision marks a lot of the important things in Chris DeNucci’s life. He is, after all, an M.D. in musculoskeletal radiology, a field of medicine that deals with imaging of bone and joint abnormalities, including ort...
The young woman was in last place at the Kokanee Trail Runs. She walked into our aid station that morning with her pink long-sleeve shirt tied tightly around her waist. Like many others this particular Sunday morning,...
Tony Rossmann has always had a distinct advantage over the rest of us, something I’ve marveled at during the close to 20 years I’ve known him, and the more than 13 years we’ve served together on the Board of Trustees for...
IT WAS A DREAM SITUATION. And, in some ways, it felt like a dream in the days and months that followed Larisa Dannis’ second-place finish at the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run in 2014. Dannis still remembers...
Front-runner Jim Walmsley, his lean body strip-mined of all excess after six months of incredibly focused training, and already on course record pace, transitioned from the snow at 8,200 feet to the dirt single track lea...
Many races in California and Nevada this spring could relate to the challenges facing the 32nd annual Silver State 50/50 Endurance Runs, held on May 20 in Reno, Nevada. A record-setting northern Nevada winter battered Si...
Bob Shebest will be the first to tell you that he’s always on the lookout for inspirational quotes to help fuel his training and racing…and his life. Yet there is more to Shebest’s appreciation of memorable lines than...
With each passing year, it’s a race we know we shouldn’t be running. But often, against our better judgment, knowing full well the runner we were last year, or 10 years ago, or 20 years ago could be far different fro...
It was a moment Katie Grossman had anticipated for nearly seven years, since that first time she visited the Hardrock 100-miler in Silverton, Colorado. She had fallen in love with Hardrock almost before she set foot t...
Nearly four years later, the two of them are bound together, by history, and through the memory of a special, shared summer in 2013. And, when asked, both Ian Sharman and Nick Clark admit that there are times when the...
It began, as these things often do, with a conversation with a friend during a run. For nearly a year, Jeffrey Conner had been planning a run of redemption at the Wasatch 100-miler. In 2015, the rocks, altitude and re...